Category: Music News

For its 10th year anniversary, Interpol’s Our Love To Admire will be getting a vinyl reissue. Packaged in either a double LP set or a double LP & DVD set. The album has been remastered by Gavin Lurssen, pressed on READ MORE

Phife Dawg, founding member of the hugely influential hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, has passed away at age of 45, according to reports. Official details regarding his passing have yet to be released, however since being diagnosed with READ MORE

Former Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland has been announced dead yesterday. Weiland reportedly passed away in his sleep on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, according to an official Instagram post.

The first, official release of Brand New’s leaked demos from 2006 will be available on cassette tape via Procrastinate! Music Traitors. The red cassette tape comes with a digital download and this is expected to be out by Christmas.

Coldplay yesterday shared the video for the lead single to their upcoming album A Head Full Of Dreams, titled Adventure Of A Lifetime. As previously teased, it features the members of Coldplay rendered as dancing CGI apes for some reason. Stream it READ MORE

Adele’s massive 25 has broken *NSYNC’s long-standing one-week sales record of 2.42 million for No Strings Attached after only four days, and by the time the chart frame closed at end-of-day Thursday, Billboard reports that 25 had sold a whopping 3.38 READ MORE

Carey Lander, keyboardist of influential Scottish indie band Camera Obscura has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Diagnosed back in 2011 with Osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, Lander finally succumbed to the illness but is fondly remembered by READ MORE

This coming November 20th, Sub Pop will have 4 releases available on cassette format. They are: Nirvana — Bleach Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear The Postal Service — Give Up Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love Time to READ MORE

Father John Misty finds himself in the news once more this week. Rather than a parody of another Ryan Adams track, this time he’s debuting new material by himself. Check out ‘The Memo’ here! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225580702″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” READ MORE

Earlier this month, we mentioned Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift’s 1989 in full. Good news for you Swifites and Ryan Adams maniacs because Adams posted on his social media outlets that his take on 1989 will be available in digital READ MORE

Welsh post-hardcore veterans Funeral For A Friend have called it a day. The band has posted a farewell message on their social media outlets, along with details and dates for a farewell tour in Europe and Australia. Fans lucky enough READ MORE

Windhand’s 3rd full-length album, Grief’s Internal Flower has been highly anticipated by both critics and fans alike. The album is out this coming September 18th, but you can now stream the full album at NPR!

Earlier this year, Slayer announced their new full-length will be out this year. We’re excited that the day is finally upon us. Their first album since the death of guitarist and songwriter Jeff Hanneman, it will mark the recording debut READ MORE

Punk rockers Blink 182 have taken to the studio to record and write new music. Mark Hoppus and new guitarist Matt Skiba have both been posting photos on Instagram of their latest recording sessions, which suggest new music will be READ MORE

Earlier last month, Ryan Adams posted via Twitter and Instagram that he is recording covers of Taylor Swift’s album 1989. He has apparently finished covering the album and has posted many updates and previews on his Instagram account @misterryanadams. We READ MORE

Emo’s new darlings The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have released a new track from their upcoming album Harmlessness, titled January 10th, 2014. Stream the new track right here!

Multi-platinum selling recording artist, songwriter and vocal power house Demi Lovato has released ‘Cool for the Summer’, the debut single from her forthcoming fifth studio album which is due later this year. Produced by Max Martin and Wolf Cousins, the cheeky, song-of-the-summer, ‘Cool READ MORE

A key moment in their rise to fame came with the incredible success of breakout single ‘Latch’ which featured vocals from the then unknown Sam Smith. Their new single ‘Omen’ features vocals from the now global superstar Sam Smith. ‘Omen’ READ MORE

CHVRCHES new single ‘Leave A Trace’ is available now! Their second album, ‘Every Open Eye’ is to be released this September. CHVRCHES have announced the release of their hugely anticipated second album, Every Open Eye, due 25 September. The album is READ MORE

Zella Day – Kicker Release Date: 29 June 2015 Her debut album – ‘Kicker’ includes the previously released single ‘Hypnotic’, and Day’s song ‘Sacrifice’ was featured on the recent soundtrack to Insurgent. ‘High’ pushes past the boundaries of Day’s recent output and READ MORE

Years & Years – Communion Release Date: 22 June 2015 As winners of the BBC Sound of 2015 Poll , the band have spent the last few years charming audiences worldwide by merging R&B, deep house, and classic-pop with both elegance READ MORE

Mika – No Place In Heaven Release Date: 15 June 2015 Following on from his multi-million selling worldwide debut ‘Life In Cartoon Motion’ and subsequent releases ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much’ and ‘The Origin of Love’, Mika’s fourth album ‘No Place In Heaven’ is READ MORE

James Taylor – Before This World Release Date: 15 June 2015 Five-time GRAMMY® Award winner James Taylor will release ‘Before This World’, the legendary singer/songwriter’s first album of new songs since 2002’s platinum-selling‘October Road’. Produced by Grammy Award®-winner Dave O’Donnell, the READ MORE

Robert Glasper – Covered Release Date: 15 June 2015 ‘Covered’, which was recorded before an intimate gathering of invited guests in Capitol Records’ historic Studio A, was designed to bring Glasper’s newfound‘Black Radio’ fan base along as he returned to the READ MORE

Rixton – Let The Road Release Date: 8 June 2015 The first full-length album from Rixton—the Manchester, England-based foursome whose debut single ‘Me and My Broken Heart’ went platinum in the U.S. and hit #1 on the UK Singles chart in READ MORE

The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers Deluxe Reissue Release Date: 8 June 2015 ‘Sticky Fingers’, one of the most revered albums in the storied catalogue of the legendary Rolling Stones, is set to enthrall a new generation of admirers. The READ MORE

Of Monsters And Men – Beneath The Skin Release Date: 8 June 2015 The critically acclaimed multiplatinum Icelandic quintet will release their long awaited second full-length album. Theyhave also debuted the first single‘Crystals’. The group spent the past year working on ‘Beneath READ MORE

Becca Stevens Band – Perfect Animal Release Date: 1 June 2015 Becca Stevens is one of the most talented young artists in any genre – the New York Times says she is “a vocalist and guitarist who balances deep melody against READ MORE

Melody Gardot – Currency Of Man Release Date: 1 June 2015 The album is an intensely creative milestone, transcending musical distinctions of jazz, blues and R&B, to offer a stirring social and musical statement. Melody joins forces again with Grammy Award-winning READ MORE

Florence + The Machine – How Big How Blue How Beautiful Release Date: 1 June 2015 The album is written and recorded over the course of 2014. Produced by Markus Dravs (Björk, Arcade Fire, Coldplay) with contributions from Paul Epworth, Kid READ MORE